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A quick video from a recent match supporting Brs's theory (edit: video comes up fine in the preview, but not in the actual post, can a mod fix it?) :

Hi all, been quite busy over the last year getting my own little club up and running, and doing some coaching. I don't have a lot of time to train and I have been having some problems with shoulder and lower back injuries, so when I do play I have been using a hardbat, since the technique and...

A little something inspired by the boosting discussion on certain other forums... ;)

Yeah, I haven't done a video for quite a while - I'm not sure the USA board situation is a comedy - more a tragedy by the looks of it! I do like your idea for the crazy tt words in conversation - I'll let it percolate for a while and see if inspiration hits. :)

Glossary of table tennis terms

I had a brief look out of curiousity and there is one thing I did notice. I remember you saying you have some issues with your knees and rheumatoid arthritis (IIRC), so I don't know exactly how much your body can handle. Anyway, I notice that you do turn your hips to the right to allow...

Hmmm, I think I recognise the guy in the brown shirt playing on one of the middle back courts... :D

Hi all - a recent discussion on MyTableTennis.net which led to the advice "harden the f up" being given out to certain forum members displeased about hidden serves, boosting and the like (a phrase apparently popular in cycling circles, that well known bastion of fair play, EPO, blood doping and...

Yeah, Craig is well known for his great backhand, as well as his athleticism. He was the runner-up at the O/60 World Veterans last year, and is still very fit and tough to play. He really can do it all - attack, lob, and chop with inverted rubber on both sides. He actually beat Colin in an...

Speaking of choppers, here's a couple of all-round players in the final of the invitational tournament I was running yesterday. Enjoy!

Pay close attention to your left foot after serving, and notice how you move straight from the serve into a stance where your left foot is behind your right foot in comparison to the line of play (where your shoulders are more or less square to where the ball is coming from). You go from serving...

It's times and debates/arguments like these that make me remember my time running the old About.com forum, and also makes me feel the need to go off for a stiff drink... except I had just finished one before starting to catch up on this thread! ;) I think perhaps I will anyway... I'll raise a...

There is advice and advice... Some advice is fairly obviously correct, a couple of minutes of thought or a few minutes testing on the table will quickly prove it to be generally valid. In this case it doesn't really matter whether a beginner or an advanced player says it. What gets more murky...

Something to think about regarding copying pro Chinese/European technique: Take a second to watch a pro video or two. Take a close look at the width of their stance, and how low and wide they stay throughout the point. A stance that wide and that low allows for a lot of body rotation and fast...

Possibly relevant to this thread, I was reading a book about John Wooden (the basketball coach) today, and this little quote jumped out at me: "It is what you learn after you know it all that counts." ;)

Yeah, sorry about that, I was trained as a computer instructor to always repeat what you are trying to teach the student a minimum of 3 times, in order to make sure that they really do understand what you are saying. I tended to carry this through into many of my first couple of years worth of...

Yes, I am that Greg Letts from the About.com days... oh the memories... ;) In regards to trusting me as a coach, these days I would not claim to be a high level coach, or an expert on all things whose word should be taken as gospel. I've learned that I was wrong about things I thought I knew...

If they listened, I guess that would be a start, perhaps something might get absorbed and be of benefit. But in general, listening without going out and applying what you heard is fairly worthless as far as table tennis is concerned. Same holds true for what people read on Internet table tennis...

This little snippet caught my attention... As one of the top level players in my area, with several players that are over the equivalent of 2000 USATT, I can confirm that in our case the top players do tend to congregate together in their own private hangouts, so as to avoid constant requests...

Thanks Jeff - I had a good day, although Jeff D. did make it pretty tough since he was fired up after his win against Alvin. Could have gone either way but I had some luck in the seventh which just helped me sneak home. Anyway, my table tennis these days is a bit like the quote about life -...